Tracklisting:

Mike Pace and the Child Actors – Everyone Out of the Car
Miranda Winters – The Futuristic District
Exam Season – Strawberry Milk
Saccharine – Pumpkin Guts
Tuvaband – Wolfpack
Devon Welsh – Dreams Have Pushed You Around
Mending – Alan after the Fire
Reddening West – Even If
Valley Maker – Light on the Ground
The Washboard Abs – Return to You
Manatree – Brushfire
Miserable Chillers – Horse Opera
Saint Charles – She Don’t Wanna Know
new casino – going for a walk*
Frankie Valet – Why Blue
Goodbye Max – Old Photos
Adeline Hotel – Habits
Joe Kaplow – I Said I Was Going and I Went
Pecas – Tuesdays
Sun Kin – Neglect
Baby Cages – flowers
Crooked Spine – Skinned Knees
Lauren O’Connell – Out of Focus
Mount Goldie – Summer
Harvey Trisdale – Baby
american poetry club – the sum of your parts
Babehoven – Out of the Country
Adam Arcuragi – Low Parade Rain
Jason Bemis Lawrence – Southern Midwest
Campdogzz – Sorceress
Barfoot – A Thin Place Between Worlds

* not on Playmoss

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The lack of breaks or pauses provides a clear through line to the EP, allowing Barfoot to blur the distinction between styles. As such, even the most divergent sounds feel interconnected, any changes feeling not some whim of the artist but a clear progression from what has come before, leaving the listener to probe exactly how and why each development relates to the previous sound. This lends something of a supple nature to the sound, an organic plasticity like that of the mind, where wildly altering thoughts can occur, though a clear path can always be drawn between points.

Which is how haunted drone of the opening can transition into the glitchy electronic continuation, and then into the thin, ghost town echoes of the closing period without any sense of abruptness. Instead, the sonic transformations leave an intuitive impression, some esoteric logic creeping through from a world not quite our own. The description of the release calls the sound “ambient experiments with tape memories. Fragments from a nice old plateau; a thin place between worlds,” and while the sentence might not make much sense before listening, you soon discover it to be the perfect summation of Barfoot’s aesthetic.

A Thin Place Between Worlds is out now via Canigou Records and you can get it from Bandcamp, including on a limited cassette edition, complete with hand-stamped artwork, and digital.

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